China has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Canadian restrictions on steel imports, a new episode of growing commercial tensions between Beijing and Ottawa announced on Friday. The economic and political relations between China and Canada have been tense in recent years, commercial ties are disturbed even when the two countries are the objective of mass customs rates imposed by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced an additional 25% tax on steel imports containing a melted and sunk alloy. He had explained that this measure was necessary to protect the national industry after the United States increased imports in 50%steel, which aroused the fear that steel companies do not massively redirect their exports to Canada.
A few days after Chinese customs tasks in Canola
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said Friday that a complaint had filed against the WTO against these measures considered “discriminatory”, claiming that “the WTO rules.”
This complaint with the WTO intervenes a few days after Beijing announced the temporal establishment of customs tariffs on Canola Canadian imports (a type of rapesee) and on the halogenic rubber of Butyle, a material used in particular in the manufacture of tires and pipes, as well as the opening of an anti -dested survey in Canadian Pead Starch. Canada declared “deeply disappointed” on Tuesday by the decision to impose rights to canola, an oilseed seeds that are among the main world producers.
In March, Beijing had already imposed a 100% surcharge to several Canadian agricultural products, saying that it was an answer to the decision made by Ottawa last year to impose 100% prices in Chinese electric vehicles.
Source: BFM TV
